Walmart·Software Engineer·Recruiter / HR Screen
- What is your experience with Excel functions like VLOOKUP or XLOOKUP?
“I had to be upfront that I never really used vlookup or xlookup.”
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Most of these Walmart write-ups come from Software Engineers (91), then Product Managers (21) and Data Scientists (13). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (47), the hiring manager screen (23), the product sense round (16) and the system design round (13).
139 interview notes · updated Oct 2026
“I had to be upfront that I never really used vlookup or xlookup.”
“The specificity of this question threw me a bit.”
“Being asked this with another candidate sitting right next to me was a level of awkward I was not prepared for.”
“I genuinely did not see this coming.”
“I answered from a general nursing standpoint because she never said to frame it around the specific role I was applying for.”
“The manager had clearly not read the forms.”
“She didn't clarify what she meant, so I had to ask.”
“Not a formal question but it stung like one.”
“Easy enough to answer but I second-guessed myself on whether giving too soon or too far out would hurt me.”
“This was clearly my stronger territory and I thought I did well.”
Candidates most often report a technical phone screen (47 write-ups), a hiring manager screen (23), a product sense round (16) and a system design round (13).
Across 47 technical phone screen write-ups, the most tagged question topics are Algorithms & Data Structures (41 questions), Technical Trade-offs (35) and Product Analytics & Metrics (18).
Across 23 hiring manager screen write-ups, the most tagged question topics are Adaptability & Ambiguity (21 questions), Stakeholder Management (5) and Technical Trade-offs (5).